... which it was originally caused. The present House of Lords is to a great extent the creation of Pitt and his successors, If Whigs and Tories had taken their turns of office in more equal propor- tions, the new peers introduced by one Minister would have ...

... most women she wa's a Whig ; wonl, tak Toryism naturally, as ducklings to the vater. Bt r aunt was a Whig from family and principle. AU the M clevilles had been Jacobites and Tories, the 1ralfaere5 al been pure Whigs. Pure Whigs-think of that a-a thi ...

... His life was long and fully occupied. For some years after the Reform Bill he was member for Cambridge, and acted as a steady Whig of the old school. His great pride, however, seems to have been in the part which he took in introducing the study of political ...

... ledged. In his literary generosity he knew no dis- tinctions of party. Though a Tory of the most un- compromising kind, the Whig Bishop Burnet, in the preface to the third volume of his History of the Reformation, wrote of him thus :- A gentleman in ...

... under any cir- cumstances. The infatuation of the Whig leaders made its return to power inevitable. Since the Queen's accession a combination of Whigs and Tories had governed the country with success. The Whigs had now determined that this system should be ...

... are remarkable. Seven out of his ten portraits are those of well-known politicians, and six out of the seven are or were Whigs, yet we see a careful attempt to do justice to all of them, and only two, namely Lord Grey and Lord Abinger, .seem to us to ...

... with the so-called discovery of the so-called Popish plot, and then began the period of political and religious agitation when Whig and Tory first took the field. With it began a new period for Dryden, a curious illustration of the way in which each life ...

... sentimental charm about Jacobitism as it lingers in a few old castles, and inspires still the, singers of the old sonogs, Awa', Whigs, awa' !, the Wee bit German lairdie, and so on. Bat it was a very unpleasant reality to those who were called upon to prove ...

... national: the one was exclusive and odious, and the other liberal and cosmopolitan. To cieate a party which should be at once Whig and Tory, national and cosmopolitan, religious and philosophical, feudal and democratic, was, in short, the slight task which ...

... the work remains uncompleted. In the present instalment of it the career of Lord Palmerston is followed to the fall of the Whig Administration in 184L. It comprises therefore only the subordinate portion of his public life But it carries us through the ...

... description. He divides them into Conservatives and Liberals, and subdivides each into Tories and Liberal-Conservatives, and into Whigs and Radicals. Now, if all that is meant by this is that there is a moderate and an extreme section in each party, it is of ...

... were on excellent teims. Indeed, the house in which Mr. Barham spent many years of his life was placed at his disposal by the Whig wit. Barbam seems to have been less happy in impromptu wit, epigram, and repartee than might leave been expected in one whose ...